I guess they want people to be able to cite it, which is why they wrote a paper. Also, many people still use ShapeNet (for example for pre-training optical flo

I guess they want people to be able to cite it, which is why they wrote a paper. Also, many people still use ShapeNet (for example for pre-training optical flow algorithms before the self-supervised stage) and this is an obvious quality improvement over that, albeit with much fewer models.